Moving and Can't Take Your Furniture? Store It and Sell It
Moving somewhere smaller? Ari Kimmelfeld explained on Simple + Intentional why a storage unit becomes a second problem, and how Store to Sell lists what you store.
Listen to the episode: 187// How to Declutter the Big Stuff (plus buying and selling secondhand with ease), Simple + Intentional with Sarah Horgan, aired October 6, 2026. Listen on Apple Podcasts.
Short answer: Sell the pieces worth selling instead of storing them indefinitely. With Commonplace Store to Sell, a crew picks up the items most likely to sell, stores and photographs them, and lists them. When one sells, you are paid wherever you live, and the buyer gets delivery and assembly.
Ari Kimmelfeld explained this on Simple + Intentional episode 187 with host Sarah Horgan, using the example of someone moving from a house in Texas to an apartment in New York City.
What Ari said
They can't take everything with them to New York City because it's just not gonna fit. But they also don't just want to put everything into a storage unit where it's just gonna sit there and they're gonna pay storage fees forever. So we have something called Store to Sell, which basically is what it sounds like.
Ari Kimmelfeld on Simple + Intentional #187, at 14:35
We get whatever items you want into the storage that are most likely to sell, say a sofa, a vanity, a dresser, things like that that are of high value. We put them into storage, we take some nice pictures of it, we list it on Commonplace. When it sells, we send you the payment wherever you are, so you don't have to be there. We do our own inspection upon picking it up from you... And then we do the full delivery and assembly for the customer, wherever they might be.
Ari Kimmelfeld on Simple + Intentional #187, at 14:35
Why "I'll deal with it later" costs more
There's this decision fatigue, right? Where people are like, I'm just gonna throw everything into storage and I'll deal with this in a year or two... You have 50 items just cluttered in a storage unit that you have to go through, you have to sort through, you have to list, you have to take photos, but they're in storage, so where are you gonna take nice photos?
Ari Kimmelfeld on Simple + Intentional #187, at 20:32
Ari's suggestion: if you are going to store something anyway, have it listed for sale while it waits. Before moving day, sort what is worth selling. Big furniture, home gym equipment, and appliances are where it pays off.
Next steps
- See how Store to Sell works.
- Selling before you move instead? Start on the furniture sell page, or photograph a room with Sell Your Room to see what is worth listing.
- Hear the full conversation in How Do I Declutter?: Ari Kimmelfeld on Simple + Intentional.
Related questions
What should I do with furniture I can't take when I move?
Sell the pieces worth selling instead of storing them indefinitely. With Commonplace Store to Sell, a crew picks up the items most likely to sell, stores and photographs them, and lists them. When one sells, you are paid wherever you live, and the buyer gets delivery and assembly.
Should I put furniture in a storage unit when I move?
Ari Kimmelfeld warned that storage often turns into fees plus a pile of decisions later: dozens of items to sort, list, and photograph inside a storage unit. If you will store something anyway, it helps to have it listed for sale at the same time.
Do I have to be there when my stored furniture sells?
No. With Store to Sell, Commonplace inspects the item when it is picked up from you, handles delivery to the buyer, and sends your payment wherever you are.
Thank you to Sarah Horgan for having Ari on Simple + Intentional. Quotes are from the episode, lightly edited for reading. Listen to the full conversation on Apple Podcasts.
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